How to format your references using the Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Sarewitz, Daniel. 2010. Double trouble? To throw cash at science is a mistake. Nature 468: 135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, Heidi S., and Hopi E. Hoekstra. 2010. Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice. Nature 463: 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaw, Sidney L., Roheena Kamyar, and David W. Ehrhardt. 2003. Sustained microtubule treadmilling in Arabidopsis cortical arrays. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 1715–1718.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bao, Lihong, Weiyi Wang, Nicholas Meyer, Yanwen Liu, Cheng Zhang, Kai Wang, Ping Ai, and Faxian Xiu. 2013. Quantum corrections crossover and ferromagnetism in magnetic topological insulators. Scientific reports 3: 2391.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Rassool, G. Hussein. 2010. Addiction for Nurses. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pies, Ingo, and Peter Koslowski, ed. 2011. Corporate Citizenship and New Governance: The Political Role of Corporations. Vol. 40. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Raghavan, Praveen, Satyakiran Munaga, Estela Rey Ramos, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala, Francky Catthoor, and Diederik Verkest. 2007. A Customized Cross-Bar for Data-Shuffling in Domain-Specific SIMD Processors. In Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2007: 20th International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, March 12-15, 2007. Proceedings, ed. Paul Lukowicz, Lothar Thiele, and Gerhard Tröster, 57–68. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Rosetta Comet Puts On A Firework Display. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 14.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1978. Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor. PSAD-78-148. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Vento, Kaila A. 2017. The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. Film Series. New York Times, April 6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Abbreviation	Metamedicine
ISSN (print)	1386-7415
ISSN (online)	1573-1200
Scope	General Medicine Issues, ethics and legal aspects